u/smorgenheckingaard

I'm a longtime listener. I've been a fan of Geoff since the very beginning in 2003. And I've been a Patron since the day they went independent. Blah blah blah.

I've been feeling the podcast has been struggling for a while now. I'm not a gamer, and the podcast these days often turns into a discussion about games, or the games they want to play for a stream, or the next gaming tournament.

The pod used to be about the bits, and now the bits have been relegated to a barrel that they'll get to when they don't have Mario Party April or the Spring Golf League to film.

It's like the bits, the main point of the pod, have been left to the back burner while all the gaming stuff takes precedence.

I know Geoff has been very conscious of this distinction in the past, with keeping the pod as it's own special thing and not turning Regulation into Achievement Hunter 2.0, but it's getting hard to refute those things at this point.

I'm not looking to argue. I'm still happily a Patron, still a huge fan of the guys, but the shine seems to have worn off the pod a bit and I'm just wondering if anyone else has similar thoughts or opinions.

My responses to Burnie's 3 questions at the end of yesterday's sponsor chat:

1. I think the new RT podcast icon should just be a close-up of Gus staring menacingly at the camera.

2. I think it's incredibly generous to give those episodes to Midnight Snack, but I do wonder what that would do to the continuity of the RTP catalogue (where it just kind of ends without a real closing episode) and where it would fit in with MS's catalogue. And I also wonder about the optics of, "Here, I don't want this thing that you created; you take it." I know that's not the case, though. On the surface I see how it makes sense; it could be a weird dynamic.

3. 3 days a week is not surprising. I understand how it makes sense for y'all, given the ramping up of other productions. I loved the original RT podcast because I loved feeling like I was getting some peaks behind the scenes of the company in addition to getting to hear folks like Geoff and Gus just be lunatics. It's largely the same for Morning Somewhere. It being very freeform and unstructured I think is what gives it so much charm. It's very conversational and I'd love for it to remain so with the new format.

That being said, whatever comes of it, I trust Burnie's & Ashley's instincts and will remain a listener and supporter regardless!